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The Winslow Boy [VHS]

The Winslow Boy [VHS]

Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring: Matthew Pidgeon , Rebecca Pidgeon , Gemma Jones , Nigel Hawthorne , Lana Bilzerian
Director: David Mamet
Many thought The Winslow Boy was an odd choice of material for David Mamet. It was originally a Terence Rattigan play from 1946, taken from a true incident in England in 1908 about a boy, 13, discharged from Royal Naval College for allegedly stealing and cashing a five-shilling postal order. The boy's father, Arthur Winslow (Nigel Hawthorne), mounts a lengthy and expensive legal campaign to clear his boy's and by extension his own name, with the rallying cry, "Let right be done!" The resultant notoriety, the dwindling fortune of the Winslows, as well as the punishment this pressure exacts on them, form the surface action of the story. Yet underneath the staid manners of the dialogue there roils a whole emotional life hardly hinted at in the actors' faces. The famous lawyer engaged to defend the boy, Sir Robert Morton (Jeremy Northam), makes a suitable sparring partner for the Winslows' daughter, Catherine (Rebecca Pidgeon), a suffragette whose suitors are scared off by the family's legal battle. The unspoken romance between these two is more the point than whether right is done or not. Pidgeon brings the same inscrutable countenance that complicated her role in Mamet's pre...
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Amistad (Thx) [VHS]

Amistad (Thx) [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Djimon Hounsou , Matthew McConaughey , Anthony Hopkins , Morgan Freeman , Nigel Hawthorne
Director: Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg's most simplistic, sanitized history lesson, Amistad, explores the symbolic 1840s trials of 53 West Africans following their bloody rebellion aboard a slave ship. For most of Schindler's List (and, later, Saving Private Ryan) Spielberg restrains himself from the sweeping narrative and technical flourishes that make him one of our most entertaining and manipulative directors. Here, he doesn't even bother trying, succumbing to his driving need to entertain with beautiful images and contrived emotion. He cheapens his grandiose motives and simplifies slavery, treating it as cut-and-dry genre piece. Characters are easy Hollywood stereotypes--"villains" like the Spanish sailors or zealous abolitionists are drawn one-dimensionally and sneered upon. And Spielberg can't suppress his gifted eye, undercutting normally ugly sequences, such as the terrifying slave passage, which is shot as a gorgeous, well-lit composition. At its core, Amistad is a traditional courtroom drama, centered by a tired, clichéd narrative: a struggling, idealistic young lawyer (Matthew McConaughey) fighting the crooked political system and saving helpless victims. Worse ye...
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Tale of Two Cities: Literary Masterpieces [VHS]

Tale of Two Cities: Literary Masterpieces [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Chris Sarandon , Peter Cushing , Kenneth More , Barry Morse , Flora Robson
Director: Jim Goddard

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Pope [VHS]

Pope [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Albert Finney , Michael Crompton , Robert Austin , Caroline Bliss , Antony Brown
Director: Herbert Wise
If there is one must-see documentary on Pope John Paul II's life and ministry, this is it. In a way, it is a summary of the Pope's pursuit of God, of love, and of light for all people. Interspersed with an English-language interview with him are footage and quotes from some of his 20-plus years of tenderness for people of all nations, ages, races, and faiths. Aside from the Pope's personal journey, however, this documentary offers a profound and ironically new manner of looking at our times. Amid surprisingly graphic footage of the events of the 20th century, clips of the Pope's visits to the war torn, the oppressed, and the needy accumulate to a moral critical mass where all the pain of the century cries out for an answer. We see Pope John Paul II present that answer as a kind of balm to every crisis he seeks out: peace to the oppressed, peace to the oppressors, peace to the dying, and peace to the young. Facing all the terrors of our time with an answer so simple is a task of faith and courage. Yet the presentation is so riveting and so powerful, it indeed commands, "do not be afraid," and indeed we believe. --Courtenay Kehn
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The Black Cauldron [VHS]

The Black Cauldron [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Grant Bardsley , Freddie Jones , Susan Sheridan , Nigel Hawthorne , Arthur Malet
Director: Richard Rich , Ted Berman

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Demolition Man [VHS]

Demolition Man [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Sylvester Stallone , Wesley Snipes , Sandra Bullock , Nigel Hawthorne , Benjamin Bratt
Director: Marco Brambilla
Searching for new directions, Sylvester Stallone starred in this farcical, 1993 SF piece about an ex-cop (Stallone) freed from 36 years of forced hibernation to help catch a criminal (Wesley Snipes) who released himself from a similar incarceration. The futuristic story finds Los Angeles a sea of Taco Bells and enforced peace, and within that satiric overview Stallone's character becomes a gun-toting fish out of water. The film plays like a live-action cartoon, and while there is nothing particularly wrong with that, Demolition Man is a rather flat experience. The irony of a peaceable society that both requires and despises its bloody saviors has been captured far more profoundly in movies like Dirty Harry. Sandra Bullock costars. The DVD release has optional full-screen and widescreen presentations, production notes, theatrical trailer, Dolby sound, optional Spanish soundtrack, and optional French and Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh
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The Hiding Place [VHS]

The Hiding Place [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Julie Harris , Jeannette Clift , Arthur O'Connell , Robert Rietty , Pamela Sholto
Director: James F. Collier

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King of the Wind [VHS]

King of the Wind [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Richard Harris , Glenda Jackson , Frank Finlay , Jenny Agutter , Nigel Hawthorne
Director: Peter Duffell

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The Black Cauldron (Disney's Masterpiece) [VHS]

The Black Cauldron (Disney's Masterpiece) [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Grant Bardsley , Freddie Jones , Susan Sheridan , Nigel Hawthorne , Arthur Malet
Director: Richard Rich , Ted Berman

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Tarzan (Walt Disney) [VHS]

Tarzan (Walt Disney) [VHS]

Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring: Tony Goldwyn , Minnie Driver , Glenn Close , Brian Blessed , Nigel Hawthorne
Director: Chris Buck , Kevin Lima
Wild with exotic adventure and laughs, Disney's TARZAN(R) is a magnificent adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic story of the ape man! Raised by a family of gorillas, including the loving Kala and the wisecracking Terk, Tarzan develops all the instincts and prowess of a jungle animal. But with the sudden appearance of Tarzan's own kind, including the beautiful Jane, two very different worlds are about to become one. Driven by five powerful songs from pop superstar Phil Collins, and starring the voice talents of Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, and Rosie O'Donnell, Disney's TARZAN delivers incredible adventure as well as important reminders about acceptance and family!
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